Materials collected by Alfred Holt Stone (1870-1955), a lawyer and cotton planter in Mississippi, pertaining to the issues of race and slavery from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Includes correspondence, transcriptions of articles from antebellum newspapers, material from the Commission on Interracial Coperation, magazine and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and books.

Alfred Holt Stone (1870-1955) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 16, 1870. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1891 with his LL. D., and in 1916 received an LL. B. from the university. In 1928, he received another LL. D. from Southwestern in Memphis, Tennessee. On June 25, 1896 he married Mary Bailey Ireys. From 1893 to 1932 Stone worked as a lawyer and cotton planter in Mississippi. Stone served as President of the Mississippi Historical Society in 1912-1913, and was the author of a history of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as well as a collection of articles on race. Stone also served in the Mississippi legislature from 1916 to 1923 and in 1932 was named Tax Commissioner and Chairman of the State Tax Commission, a post he held until his death on May 11, 1955.

Scope & Content Note

Most of the material in the Stone Collection is related to the issue of race in the southern United States.

Box 1 contains letters from African-Americans to Stone's wife, Mary (Folder 2), transcriptions of articles on slavery from antebellum newspapers (Folder 4), early twentieth century bibliographies of works on African-Americans (Folder 5), material from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (Folder 6), and early twentieth century magazine and newspaper clippings on race (Folders 7-9).

Box 2 contains books and pamphlets ranging from the antebellum period to the early twentieth century on a variety of topics, but the majority of these works are race-related. Box 3 contains oversized material, primarily early twentieth century newspapers, or pages from them, which contain articles on race. Several of the newspapers contain extensive coverage of the St. Louis race riot of 1917.

Restrictions

Copyright Restrictions

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Index Terms

African Americans--History--Bibliography

Agricultural laborers

Civil rights movements

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Newspapers--18th Century

Newspapers--19th Century

Race relations--Mississippi

Segregation

Slavery, abolition, and emancipation

Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955

Separated Material

The following items from the Alfred H. Stone Collection have been cataloged:

General Collection:

The Cornell Era 43, 5 (March 1911)

The History of the Ancient Australian Convict Ship "Success" and Its Most Notorious Prisoners, 1929

R. S. Hecht, Down Under and All Around, 1949

Frederick L. Hoffman, "A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Administration," 1918

Library of Congress Card Catalog Cards regarding slavery and race from the 18th through the early 20th centuries.

Bibliographies of African-American Studies.

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George H. Moore, "Additional Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts," New York Historical Society. 1866.

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Ruby E. Stutts Lyells, ed.,"Understanding the Negro: A Short List of Recent Books by and about the Negro Selected to give a Background for Understanding what the Negro Thinks in the Present Crisis," prepared for the Mississippi Council on Interracial Cooperation. 1942.

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"Northwestern University Library Program of African Studies Collection". 1955.